LAST EDITED ON Oct-16-07 AT 12:22PM (MST)[p]What I want to know is, why should anyone even care about the high fence issue at all.
There are pheasant clubs, duck clubs, trout farms, catfish farms, etc. and almost all are on some kind of "pay for play" system.......there are even still legal cathouses, where you can "take a trophy".
Whats the big deal. You choose if you want to take advantage of those fenced opportunities.
It's all relative. We pay for beef at the store because our lifestyle does not allow us time or inclination to grow it ourselves. Same with clothing, car repairs, plumbers, electricians, etc, etc, etc. It's just the world we live in.
It is also a way older practice than America itself. They have been shooting grouse and deer in Scotland on fenced farms since 3 days after the first gun was invented. Remember Sherwood Forest....private land, selectively hunted by the elite.
If someone owns, leases, or otherwise controls a piece of land and they want to raise Unicorns to sell to people to shoot, why should I care?
How many places in this country already raise animals not even native to the United States, just to ultimately kill?
Why did Pheasants, Chukar, Huns, Brown Trout and others come to the US.....for a better way of life? Not. "We" brought them all here to have something to shoot.
We have spread critters from the East to the West so us Western folks have more things to shoot.
We have hybridized dozens of forms of wildlife so we can have more things to shoot.
Millions of dollars are spent annually to grow better feed, better antler size and bigger animals in general, basically, so that we have better quality things to shoot.
And why would the Federal Government need to be any deeper into your life than it already is?
Try not to let your hypocracy get too far away from reality.